[Sca-cooks] kids/ baked squash

[Terry Decker]

All of squash (Cucurbita) are New World.  The Old World relatives are gourds
(Lagenaria).  In the 16th Century squashes began replacing gourds in
European cooking.  The confusion comes from the fact that squashes and
gourds became interchangeable in common language.

Bear

> Squash is one of those items that can be difficult to know since, I
> believe, some varieties are Old World and some are New World. Although
> there have been some attempts to make lists of what is and isn't
> period, this is really a difficult task because it boils down to
> "period" for when and where. Some items were period for Roman Britain,
> aren't for Anglo-Saxon England but are for Anglo-Norman England, for
> instance (rabbits). Some things are period for 16th C. Spain, but not
> for 16th C. England (peppers).

>
> Stefan